Re: [iPAQ] Perl/CGI/Apache/mod_perl

From: James Manning <jmm.a.t.computer.org>
Date: Wed Oct 25 2000 - 09:23:50 EDT

[Ben Blaukopf]
> Has anyone else found Perl (or any similar large app) to be fairly slow on
> the IPaq? Something like perl -MPOSIX -e ';' takes about 6 seconds to
> run. It's quite slow on the PC to start with, as you'd expect, because it
> has to load an awful lot of stuff, but subsequent runs are much
> faster, whereas there is no improvement on the IPaq. Is this a consequence
> of a compressed file system?

checking the "free" output on occasion, it looks like this kernel doesn't
do nearly the aggressive fs caching as a mainstream kernel... given
the resource situation, this is certainly a good idea, but all the perf
gains we get used to won't be there either....

confirm/deny of this would be worth hearing, though :)

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